ZoneAlarm 7.0.337 - What is Checkpoint doing??

My two cents ....
I have been using ZoneAlarm Pro for years.
It has always
done what it advertises - protect my pc from viruses/trojans
and malware. I have never had any issues with any version
of ZoneAlarm, less the occasional VSMON running amock.
I used to use Norton.
Norton also performed as advertised.
However, Norton over time became such a large and cumbersome package
which ate up so much of my system resources that I jumped ship.
I downloaded and installed ZoneAlarm 7 the other day.
The first
thing that I noticed is the the physical install file is about
30% larger than the lastest 6.5 version.
After the clean install
and reboot I noticed that there were two new processes running
on the system.
These processes are &quot;ScanningProcess.exe&quot; and
used about 20 meg of physical ram each.
So at boot, ZoneAlarm
is now the single largest user of system resources.
Does ZoneAlarm 7 protect my pc better than version 6? Probably
not - so why reinvent the wheel.
I am not quite ready to call
the ZoneAlarm 7 &quot;bloatware&quot;. If too many more &quot;improvements&quot;
are made it may well earn that distinction.

Re: ZoneAlarm 7.0.337 - What is Checkpoint doing??

That's odd, the two scanningprocess.exe are usually involved with the new Kaspersky av; so the first question is are you sure you
got the ZA Pro upgrade?- it doesn't have the Kaspersky av in it. Check the stats on ZA - right click your ZA icon &gt;click on &quot;about&quot; &gt; copy and paste info. You didn't try the trial version ZA Suite? .:0Naive Melody NYC 5-7-07 - Hung up - Madonna

Re: ZoneAlarm 7.0.337 - What is Checkpoint doing??

The question now stands as to what you really want - &quot;my personal suggestion&quot; would be to keep the suite, as the new Kaspersky av in this ZA Suite is a top performer (although there are a few side effects for some - and this being the first version releases - further upgrade/versions will fix the bugs - and things will improve in time). Hopefully, now that you do have Kaspersky av, &quot;you did un-install whatever anti-virus you were running? Please do so - immediately if not.&quot; And for Norton, I hope you had used the Norton Removal Tool - see - http://forums.zonealarm.com/zonelabs...message.id=154
.<hr>For test reviews of ZA suite: by PCMag - dated 1-25-07 - http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/...=199559,00.asp .
<hr>and by Cnet -dated 1-16-07 - http://reviews.cnet.com/ZoneAlarm_In....html?tag=tool
.<hr>Benefits &amp; Features of ZA Suite - click on mid-top tabs for additional info. - http://www.zonealarm.com/store/conte...mp;lid=ho_zass .<hr>Oh, if you have other security software - please list them; as Kaspersky av, does have issues with some of them, ok.<hr>So I hope this reassures you - you did buy the best security software available.NaiveMelody NYC 5-7-07 - Take it to the limit - The Eagles